[Wylug-discuss] Ubuntu freezes

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Anne Wilson wrote:

> That box has given me endless trouble since the day it was built.  Mandrake
> 10.1 freezes from time to time, with never anything in the log to give me a
> clue.  The only thing I'm sure of is that it will freeze if anything gives
> rise to continuing errors in syslog.  It doesn't matter what the error is, it
> appears maybe 5 or 6 times, then there's a freeze.  Deal with the problem and
> it's stable again until next time something gets upset.

So it's locking up after writing to syslog?  DMA issues with the hard disk
perhaps?  Try disabling dma with hdparm on the drive that you're logging to
and see if that stop it (although it will be somewhat treacley).

jh

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